Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
There has been a new study that gives us a fascinating new insight into exercise. The researchers were asking themselves this key question – How effective are small, realistic changes in physical activity and sedentary behaviour on population-level mortality? But first, before we get into this, there is a rather important context for all of … Read more
Inside the megachurch theology that says God wants you rich — and the poor just need more faith. You might think that Jesus and today’s Evangelicals are all playing on the same team. However, it is a rather hard “no” on that one. If you are familiar with what Jesus both said and did, then … Read more
You can be fooled, I can be fooled, we can all be fooled. It is inevitable that at some point like me you also will have believed something and then later discovered it was not actually true at all. How did you then respond to that reveal? Like most you would have changed you mind … Read more
It can, and should, be argued that the greatest threat to humanity our species faces in Climate Change, for what are very obvious reasons … “Climate change is the defining issue of our time.” – UN Secretary-General António Guterres You know all this. Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is now gaslighting US citizens. Their mission was once … Read more
We will shortly dig into the details of a recently published paper that reveals something deeply dire about climate change that had not been previously known, nor had it been predicted by the climate models, and yet it is now beginning to manifest. Dire as it is, there may actually be a bit of a … Read more
The title is no longer just an opinion, it is now an empirical fact that has been confirmed by researchers. Several researchers formed this hypothesis … “the political empowerment of Christian nationalist ideology in the form of politicians expressing Christian nationalist sentiments corresponds to physical attacks on religious minorities carried out by self-professing Christians.” They … Read more